Palh

The Pal/ Paluh/ Palh[1] (Sindhi: پلهہ) is a Sammat tribe of Sindh province, Pakistan.[2] parts of Punjab bordering Sindh, in Balochistan province, and in the Rajasthan of India.[3][4] [5][6] There is a railway station in Sindh Hyderabad Badin line also on the name of Palh, Palh railway station

Palh, پلهہ
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan, India
Languages
Sindhi, Sraiki, Balouchi, Punjabi, Hindi
Religion
Islam - Sunni, Shia, Deobandi, erstwhile Hinduism, Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
other Sindhis

There are villages by the name of Palh in Badin, Dadu, Khairpur and Sukkur Districts,[7] [8]

Distribution

Most of this tribe live mainly in the Miranpur, Sindh, Padidan and Dariya Khan Marri areas of Naushahro Feroze District, Village Palh, and Dadu areas of Dadu District, Jam Sahib in Shaheed Benazirabad District, Ranipur, Sindh, Kunmb, Kandir and Palh village in Khairpur District. However some families are settled in the cities of Larkana, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Karachi, Multan, Quetta and Islamabad The total population of Palh tribe is around 23,000.

The head of this tribe is called Sardar and current head of Palh tribe is Haji Arbab Ali Khan Palh.

Notable people

Haji Idrees Palh (Social Activist).

Haji Khan Palh

Muhammad Qabool Palh

Muhammad Noah Palh

References
  1. Census Commissioner, India. (1933). Census of India, 1931, Volume 8, Issue 1. Manager of Publications. p. 565.
  2. "پلهہ 2 : (Sindhianaسنڌيانا)". www.encyclopediasindhiana.org (in Sindhi). Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  3. ʻSukhvir Singh Gahlot, Banshi Dhar (1989). Castes and Tribes of Rajasthan. Jain Brothers. p. 79. ISBN 8185287007.
  4. Frank Tousey (1980). The Frank Reade Library, Volumes 81-97. Garland. p. 9.
  5. ʻAlī, Anṡārī ʻAlī Sher (1901). A Short Sketch, Historical and Traditional, of the Musalman Races Found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Their Genealogical Sub-divisions and Septs, Together with an Ethnological and Ethnographical Account. Printed at the Commissioner's Press.
  6. "Palh is 24th son of Unar son of Samon had twenty-eight sons" (PDF).
  7. "پلهہ : (Sindhianaسنڌيانا)". www.encyclopediasindhiana.org (in Sindhi). Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  8. "پلهہ". www.encyclopediasindhiana.org (in Sindhi). Retrieved 2022-06-06.
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